Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1954 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2<. 1954

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Phillies Seek To Swing Deals To Build Team CLEARWATER, Fla., UP — In the days before the spectacular whiz kids of 1950, they often were called the "forlorn Phillies." It may be that * that old nickname will be an apt description for the 1954 Philadelphia Phillies. It has some of the star players in the game today in pitchers Robiq Roberts and Curt Simmons, outfielders Del Ennis and Richie Ashburn, and shortstop-second baseman Granny Hamner. Any club with a nucleus like that figures to be a contender. But it doesn’t appear as if there will be enough help for that solid foundation. For the Phillies lack reserve infield strength, a right fielder, catchers and pitching depth. No one knows that more than owner Bob Carpenter and manager Steve O'Neill and they are doing everything possible to swing a fewdeals before the season opens. Both know that as the club shapes up today there are too many question marks to be talking pennant. But the outlook isn't too dismal when you have players like Roberts, Simmons, Ennis, Ashburn and Hamner around. If Earl Torgeson at first base and Willie Jones at third could get back in groove, it would improve the Phils' chances tremendously. S It would help the club too, if their brilliant young rookie shortstop, Ted Kazanski, isn't called into military service. Now- it looks as if he may be summoned around May 15 and if he is, it could wreck the club because of that lack of infieljl reserve strength. A first line infield of Torgpson at first. Hamner at second. Kazanski at short and Jones at third could be good enough—if Torgeson and Jones hammer the ball. This is the make-or-break year for Jones, who had a dismal season last year and is on the spot. O’Neill has told him he will have to hit to hold his job. Should Kazaaaki gotten the service, it would mean moving Hamner hack to his old shortstop post and the Phillies then would be weak at second. They have two promising rookies, Mickey Micelotta and Ben Tompkins, but both may be a year away. Besides, Tompkins sprained his right ankle and may not be ready to start the season. In case Jones should falter, rookie Stan Jok, who hit .279 at Baltimore last season, might get the job. Jok. a long ball ,hitter, can play either third or the outfield. - Ennis in left and Ashburn tn

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center are set in the outfield, but unless Mel Clark recovers from his injured knee, there will be oply the veteran Johnny Wyrostek for right. Clark is still a question mark. Stan Lopata and Smokey Burgess will share the catching job. Lopata is the better workman behind the plate but Burgess is the better hitter. However, neither is a grade A catcher. Behind Roberts and Simmons for pitching there will be Bob Miller, who hurled so well at the end of last season; Jim Konstanty, Murry Dickson, Thornton Kipper, Steve Ridzik and Karl Drews. Johnny Lindfell is a question mark because of a sore arm and the two most promising rookie pitchers, Bob Greenwood and John Sanford may need another year of minor league seasoning. But O’Neill will have to keep at least one of them if Lindell does not recover, although he feels that it would hurt the chances of either of them it they didn’t pitch regularly. Drews is another question mark for he has been pounded hard this spring. Milliner Quits As Elkhart Net Coach ELKHART, Ind- UP — Bill Milliner announced today he has resigned as Elkhart high school basketball coach to enter busitaess. Milliner; 35, quit his job in the Elkhart school system effective at the end of the present term. He offered his resignation just four days after his Blue Blazers lost to Muncie Central, 59-50, in the finals of the Indiana high school basketball tourney. Milliner piloted the team farther than any other Elkhart team had advanced tn 44 years of- tournpy play. r ~~ Milliner quit to take a job fs sales manager of the Robbins Tool and Die Co., Elkhart. His resignation caused speculation as to a successor. School ottipials said none has been chosen but several coaches have applied. Milliner formerly coached at Monroeville. Kerr, Ramsey Added To College AH Stars s Fort” Wtryfce, hfd. — Another pair of the coqntry’s most celebrated college stars, Johnny Kerr of the University o? Illinois and Frank Ramsey of the University of Kentucky, have been added to the roster of the College All-Amer-icans for their Monday, April 5. game at Fort Wayne’s Memorial Coliseum against the celebrated Harlem Globetrotters, Now signed for the big World Series game in Fort Wayne April 5 are Indiana's Bob Leonard, Maryland’s Gene Shue, Notre name's Dick Rosenthal and Joe Bertrand. Holy Cross' Togo Palazzi and Furman's Frank Selvy. Two Children Die As Home Destroyed TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UP) — Two young children died when fire swept their home Tuesday. Kenneth Booker. 4. and his nephew, William Booker, 3, were found under a dresser in an upstairs bedroom. Firemen said they apparently sought refuge there and suffocated. Kenneth was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Booker, who have 10 other children. Both parents were away when the fire broke out. PEARSON (Continued Frnm I’nire One> file on another matter involving a “vibration of the espionage act?" McCarthy said he wanted to know what has been done about ' this case since if was a “clear violation” of the espionage act. L Brownell earlier had written i McCarthy he had the espionage ■ accusation —under “active- consideration.”

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Says Newcombe And Erskine To Top All Hurlers By UNITED PRsESS Vice-President Fresco Thompson claimed the “best pitching staff in the National League” for the Brooklyn Dodgers today and predicted that aces Carl Erskine and Don Newcombe“'‘will win 8 if 16 more games this year than Robin Roberts and Curt Simmons.” “Erskine and Newcombe figure to be the best 1-2 pitching punch in the league”, Thompson said. “1 won’t predict they’ll total 40, 45 or 50 wins but it’s a cinch theyll win 8 or 10 more than Roberts and Simmons will total for „the Philadelphia Phillies.’ Roberts and Simmons, generally regarded as the best 1-2 pitching combination in the circuit, totalled 39 victories foi* the Phillies: last season. They also combined tor 37 when the Phillies won the pennant in 1950 and for 42 in 1952. On that basis, Thompson is figuring that Erskine and Newcombe will win at least 45 games and possibly 50 this year. He indicated he won’t be surprised it they total 50 victories — more than any National League combination since Bucky Walters and Paul Derringer won 52 games for the Cincinnati Reds in 1939. .Erskine, who capped a 20-victory season in 1963 by setting a World Series record of 14 strikeouts in one game, became the first major leaguer to go nine innings this spring when he limited the Philadelphia Athletics to five hits in Tuesday's 10-2 triumph? In 19 innings this spring, the 27-year old t has allowed only three runs and 14 hits. Newcombe, a 20-game winner in 1951 who is returning after two years in the army, held the New York Yankees hitless for six innings last Friday night and has allowed only three runs and four hits in 10 innings of Grapfruit League pitching. In addition, the 230-pound fireballer has collected 10 strikeout victims? “~ Manager Eddie Stapky of the St. Louis Cardinals was enthusiastic over fine pitching by Vie Raschi. the >BO.OOO purchase from the Yankees. Raschi, in his longest stint of the spring, pitched six shutout innings Tuesday as-the. Cardinals' edged out tne Milwaukee Braves. 5-5. .Mickey Vernon drove in the winning run with a single to give Washington's Bob oPrterfield a 3-2 verdict over Philadelphia’s Roberts in a contest between Hie leadingwinners in both leagues. Porterfield, a 22-game winner for the Sepatorse. allowed two runs in seven innings while Roberts gave three in six. Simmons shut out the Senators with one hit during the last three innings. The New York Giants hammered Warren flicker for five runs in four innings to beat the-Chicago Cubs. 5-0, behinds steady pitching by Larry Jansen and Johnny Antonelli. Hacker, hard-luck pitcher of the N. L. when he -had a 12-19 record last season, has yielded 19 runs in 12 innings this spring. The Chicago White Sox scored their fuorth victory in five games when they belted U-game winner Ned Garver for seven runs in six /innings and went on to a 9-7 decision over the Detroit Tigers. Willard 'Marshall sparked Chicago's

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attack with a two-run homer in the first inning. In other games, rookie Tom Brewer stretched his scoreless string to 17 innings as the Boston Red Sox beat the Cincinnati Redlegs, 2-0. Bevo Francis May Leave Rio Grande OMAHA, Neb. UP — Speculation mounted today that nervous Newt Oliver and his high scoring beanpole “Bevo” Francis might transfer their talents away from tiny Rio Grande Ohio College next season. The weary Rio Grande team, which traveled some 18,000 miles in winning 21 games and losing seven this year, headed home today after ending the season with a 93-75 loss against Creighton Tuesday night. The dour faced Francis pipped around the determined Creighton defenders to pour in 41 points, in the loshig eanse and finished the season with an astounding total of 1,314 points. Oliver, who ordered his team off the floor, in protest against the of : ficiating in an all star game Monday night, hinted he was looking (ar a “better deal.” ' “I don't know what I’ll do,” he said. “Naturally you always are looking tpr a better deal.” He expressed dissatisfaction with the athletic facilities at Rio Grande. Bevo, who said he wanted to “get back to school,” said he planned to play for Rio Grande next year “unless Oliver moves. Then, if there's any chance to do it, I'd move too.” Special Board To Probe Davies Case Diplomat Accepts Board Jurisdiction WASHINGTON UP Career diplomat John Paton Davies Jr will accept the jurisdiction < f a special board that will probe deeper into his security -ca^^ate -departniefii officials. re-_ ported today. Appointment of the civil -- r'. h security board requesteil Sy secretary of state John Foster Dulles and its subsequent inquiry is expected to drag on through the summer before a decision is reached. Davies plans to return to his diplomatic post in Peru within the next few- days subject to recall to give ne* testimony unde r oat It. His salary is 813,600-a-year. Davies’ case began in 1951 when he was suddenly suspended from ills jotr-as a Far Eastern expert on the state department’s top policy planning board. No official reasons .were given for tjie suspension and he was restored to. duty. Davies was transferred to Germany as an assistaht to the U.S. high commissioner. He was brought home to face congressional investigation on charges he had authored a plan In 1949 to use some Communists oh a special central intelligence agency project. The senate internal security su4icommittee. which conducted the inquiry, later charged that Davies had committed perjury in denying that he had recommended that CIA use "certain individuals having Communist- associations and connections.” Trade 'u a Good Town — Decatur

Milan's Slow Stuff May Be Often Copied INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Statistics tell only half the story about Milan’s remarkable success In Indiana's high school basketball tourney the past two years. _ It's true, of course, that Marvin Wood’s Ripley county boys were from the first small town school in 89 years to win the “big one” last Saturday. But it would hardly be fair to compare their sensational surge to the top with that of Thorntown in 1915. Records show' that only 155 teams competed in the fifth tourney, with the finals at Indiana University, when Thorntown won. There were 751 in this year's title chase nearly five times as manv as in 1915, making it that much tougher for the eventual chaqipion. That’s not the whole story, how--ever. When the state-wide tourney first began, there was little art to the type of offense used. In fact, there generally was only one —pass the ball to the big fel-

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low—if you had one. It that big fellow was missing, it was an more ibethodical grind to get tha ball into the hoop. But regardless of that, it was the deliberate, semistall which was almost universally used in those days. Not until the late 193(T« did the pattern of offense gradually change to whaf is npv known as the "fast-breaking” attack. From then on, it was mostly hit and run. It was about that time, too, that tpam? from smaller towns were shoved into the background and only occasionally wormed their way through-rfo/he, Mate -finals. Winamac in I»3a represented the smallest town until Milan to gain the championship game. Wood, figuring Milan would stay "alive” longer with a possession game, thus became the first coach in the modern era to be successful in applying the brakes. Last year, Milan’s zone defense and deliberate offense, the first successful “slow stuff” in many years, went to the state finals only tp be beaten by South Bend Central’s eventual winners. But Milan had another year to get ready, and with four members of its 1953 starting outfit back, worked its deceptive patterns to perfection. The Indians became so proficient, they took all comers in the four-week tourney, winning their three last games from season-lon£ powers Indianapolis Crispus As-

tucks, Terre Haute Geratmeyer, and Muncie Central. And if other tefoiis can successfully copy their style, outcome of future tuorneyg will be nearly impossible to predict. Complete Field In Spgor Bowl Tourney NEW ORLEANS UP — Bradley University and Loyola o* Louisiana accepted blds Tuesday to play In the four-college Sugar Bowl basketball tournament here, Dec. 29-30*; Holy Cross, National Invitation Tournament champion, and N'otre Dame had previously accepted Invitations. Johnstown To Meet Cincinnati In Finals JOHNSTOWN, Pa. UP — Johnstown and Cincinnati begin their best four out of seven series for the International Hockey League playoff cup Thursday night. The Jets qualified Tuesday night by booting Toledo out of the playoffs with a 3-0 decision to make it two straight in their best two out of three series. Ron Castalane, Don Hall and Cliff McArthur each scored in the second period to down the Mercurys. . Trade in a good Towu — Decatu:

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Commodore Teams Honored Tuesday Members of the Dpcatur Commodore varsity and reserve basfcet; ball teams and their managers were honored , at a banquet Tuesday evening at the K. of C. hall, sponsored by the Holy Name society. > Other invited guests were the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetar pas. tpr; the Rev. Robert Cpntant, athletic director; David Terveer, coach, and William Miller, president of the Holy Name society. These briefly on highlights of the past season and other athletic activities. Other guests included tiife Very Rev. Msgr. Charles Girardot and the Rev. Dennis Dene- ■ fyan, both of St. Jude’s parish at Fort Wayne. BOWLING SCORES Major League '' —- r — L ?t». State Gardens ... 22(4 7(4 31(4 First State Bank -20 Iff 27 Mies Recreation .17 13 24 Painter’s — 16(4 13(4 20(4 Hoagland 14(4 15(4 17(4 Heart Club 12 18 16 Schafer’s 10(4 19(4 12(4 Midwestern Lifer? 7 23 10 200 games: Lankenau 213, Eichhorn 200.